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Cladding leaseholders must unite … and get MPs to attend Hilary Benn’s debate on February 12

Freeholders face class action over insurance commissions

Peter Bottomley: Many thanks

Michael Gove: ‘squeeze every income stream that freeholders have’. Parliament debates leasehold reform Bill

MPs aghast at Liam Spender’s account of being a leaseholder litigant. It is like ‘being a laboratory animal in a maze controlled by freehold-owning landlords and their enablers’

Most ‘nakedly furious’ BBC documentary in years

Three quarters of Churchill Retirement flats have lost money when resold, says The Times

War of attrition: FirstPort appeals St David’s Square leaseholder victory (after telling leaseholders everyone would be sharing in the win)

Libel lawyers for Richard Davidoff, of ABC Estates, fail to get Google to hand over online reviewers’ identities

If freeholders can’t pay to remediate ‘their’ buildings, they should lose the freeholds and the income streams that come with them

More than 20,000 leaseholders benefit from CMA action over ground rent mis-selling

Sun shines on the leaseholders’ demo at Parliament: after Jenrick, is this a new dawn?

Report from Tchenguiz Family Trust, Long Harbour and Wallace Estates seeks to side-line leasehold reforms by fear-mongering over fire safety

Radius leaseholders rumble Taylor Wimpey for trying to flog off freehold to property punters …

Get commonhold done, London Assembly tells government

LKP vindicated by devastating CMA report into mis-selling of leasehold homes

Cladding scandal Westminster demo, February 25: three mayors, 27 MPs, 300 leaseholders, a swarm of media …

The Times reports that families ‘lost £3 billion’ on resale of leasehold retirement flats, while developers and freehold speculators made millions

Ruling blasts Israel Moskovitz’s lawyers for ‘wasting tribunal time’ in legal warfare that is ‘part of a pattern’, as RTM gains control of £69,000 funds

Long Harbour hits reverse on forfeiture to £800,000 flat over £400 ground rent … and JB Leitch halves its legal bill

Freehold for Elan Homes leasehold house doubles in price to £15,900 four months after being sold to Landmark Investments

Lawyers to Communities Select Committee: Stop ‘sticking plaster reforms’. End ‘draconian’ forfeiture. £10 ground rents a ‘mistake’. Make legal costs fair to leaseholders. Commonhold failed because developers make money out of leasehold …

Communities Select Committee lifts the lid on the residential freehold racket

Sean Mulryan’s Ballymore won’t be doing the ‘decent thing’ over Grenfell cladding costs at New Providence Wharf

Neighbour forfeits leaseholder’s £600,000 London maisonette for putting in a new bathroom

Slough council takes Nova House leaseholders to tribunal over Grenfell cladding costs

McCarthy and Stone and Churchill: are you blackmailing government over the ground rent ban and is your business model broken? Asks BBC R4 MoneyBox

McCarthy and Stone: Ground rents are not the future of retirement housing

RICS fines Warwick Estates £20,000 over lift shaft fatality – after ARMA ‘blocked its regulator from hearing the case’

National Trust abandons ground rent rises of up to £8,000 a year for its rural leaseholders

Wellcome Trust spends £114,000 on lawyers to defeat Onslow Square leaseholder in £6,000 dispute

Persimmon sold leasehold houses for £50,000 more than same-size freehold houses at Harrow View West

Will Heysmoor Heights leaseholders lose their homes to anonymous offshore freeholder if they cannot pay Grenfell bills?

Tchenguiz’s Israeli ‘military intelligence’ operators Black Cube ‘were employed by Harvey Weinstein over sex accusations’